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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Puerto Rico to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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